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...course, lifestyle decisions and your own medical history are important. Smoking can knock 10 to 15 years off of an otherwise healthy person's life, and diabetes, obesity, blood pressure, heart disease and cholesterol all factor prominently into formulas life insurance companies use to estimate applicants' life expectancies and set rates for policies, says Paul Graham, VP and chief actuary at the American Council of Life Insurers, an industry trade association...
...this win away from home is a sign of better things to come. “One of the things that was important to us in this game [against UNH] was developing road toughness,” coach Frank Sullivan said. “Hopefully that helps that confidence factor in the guys.” The Crimson will need that road savvy tomorrow to get past the Raiders (3-2), a team that is riding a three-game winning streak of its own. Recently, both teams have been shooting in improved accuracy, a fact that could turn the contest...
...second start, the “firsts” factor was gone but in place of the cellar-dwelling Bears were the league-leading Princeton Tigers...
Panelists warned yesterday that rulings by the court in these two cases in favor of the plaintiffs—who claim that the school districts’ policies of using ethnicity as a factor in school admittances is unconstitutional—would effectively reverse the precedent that Brown established...
Much attention has been paid to video game violence as a possible model for real-world outbursts—with id Software’s hyper-violent computer game “Doom” infamously, and speciously, named as a contributing factor to the Columbine school shootings by media commentators—but incidents of violence directly related to in-game feuds are a comparatively recent development. They stand as an unwelcome testament to the runaway success these games have had in creating an alternate social universe just as real and urgent as the one we wake to each...